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scotttobejoking

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About scotttobejoking

Programmer; theology student; interested in interesting things; not a hacker like Feynman is a hacker

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    Comment #6285271

    This one is a bit of a puff piece... Workers work harder in a recession. No big surprise. But I fail to see a clear link between a recession and "punishment or pampering". The one …

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    Comment #6207942

    Actually the bug 'breach' in the article is not the breach I was thinking about. It's a bad breach but it's a separate issue to me. For me the issue lies in how Facebook communicat…

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    Comment #6203429

    >>Then you need to ban gossip as well. That's precisely the thing - effective society does ban gossip. Sure, it doesn't get rid of it 100%, but it recognizes it as a harmful thing …

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    Comment #6203242

    You're right that if a friend shares personal information we would rather be kept generally private, our friend is responsible for the privacy breach. But the person they share wit…

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    Comment #4461672

    Citing one example of where cleverness was more effective than kindness falls far short of proving the statement that it is never more important to be kind than clever; you might w…

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    Comment #4460109

    As they describe in the page, when you describe something, you are trying to place it within a general framework. In trying to describe a domain in an encyclopedia, it does little …

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    Comment #4440330

    I wouldn't say that library size is only tangentially relevant. After, all, if we all had small libraries, we wouldn't be worried about them as a valuable part of our estate, would…

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    Comment #4440033

    Classic first world problem, right here... Oh no - I have so much music that a physical storage model doesn't scale - in fact, I have so. much. music. that I can't afford to own it…

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    Comment #4113681

    I don't think you properly take into account some of the internet factors that actually make a higher proportion of mobbish vigilantes: 1 - Visibility, which you yourself mention. …

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    Comment #4108989

    The good reason is that that would be trying to present a technical solution to what is a personal conflict of interest. The basic problem is that people's stories are competing fo…